As a database professional, one should know multiple database platforms as in the real world we can’t say no to our clients when they show up a system which is running slow and involves multiple database platforms. During the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check engagements, I have seen quite many different databases like ProstgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. In this blog post, I am going to discuss my newly released course on Pluralsight – Getting Started with MariaDB.
How to Find Size of the Index for Tables? – Interview Question of the Week #198
Question: How to Find Size of the Index for Tables?
Answer: Earlier this week, during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked this question by my client. Let us see the script which will give us details related to Schema, Tables, Index and its size.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Start Service SQLSERVERAGENT on Server (mscorlib)
There are several reasons for the error mentioned in the blog title. In this blog, we would learn about one of the causes of error Unable to start service SQLSERVERAGENT on a server.
SQL SERVER – You Are Not Logged on as the Database Owner or System Administrator
Every day I spend a good amount of time with my regular and new clients, helping them with SQL Server Performance Tuning issues. Today, in this blog, I will discuss a situation faced where I was engaged in Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. I saw below message on client’s SSMS while he was trying to create a table – You are not logged on as the database owner or system administrator.
12th Anniversary of SQL Authority – 4552nd Blog Post
Today is Anniversary of SQLAuthority and it completes 12 years and this is a 4552nd blog post. That means on average every year I have published around 379.3 blog posts a year.
12 years ago on November 1st, 2018, when I started this blog, I had no idea where I will end up but I must confess, it is a pretty decent ride so far. There are earlier many blog posts, I have shared my story, so I am not going to re-write it why did I start the blog. However, let me take a moment and talk about the future of the blog.
SQL SERVER – Disable IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio
Just another day, I received an email from a user who has over 350 thousand tables in a single database. He was my earlier customer of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. He was facing indeed a very strange issue where his metadata table was locking up and we fixed that by disabling IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio.
SQL SERVER – XML Document Could Not be Created Because Server Memory is Low. Use sp_xml_removedocument to release XML documents
Most of my earnings come from my role as SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization consultant. Every single day I work with few customers so that I can maintain the quality of my work with each of them. As you can imagine, I face new challenges and learn new ways to tune SQL Server. In this blog post, we will discuss an error XML document could not be created because server memory is low. Use sp_xml_removedocument to release XML documents.